Senior Software Engineer Scala

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization's GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

Spend your days making a difference, not just working for a living. We do that by creating Security, Risk management, Compliance, and audit software that uncovers fraud, waste, environmental risk, and abuse in their organizations. Our collaborative R&D teams use Serverless AWS technologies to build our SaaS platform and tackle strategic business challenges, creating highly impactful solutions for today and for our future to support Modern Governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and performant web applications using Scala.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code following best practices and coding standards.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to deliver features on time.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application performance, security, and scalability.
• Continuously find improvement areas and optimize existing codebase.
• Stay updated with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in Scala development and apply them to enhance our applications.
• Work closely with frontend developers to integrate backend functionalities with the user interface.
• Perform deployments and maintenance of applications in production environments.
• Write and maintain technical documentation for projects and features.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering, with 4-8 years of experience in the IT field.
• At least 3 years of Scala development experience with Play framework, alternatively Java experience.
• Familiar with distributed system design.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar.
• Familiar with query analysis and optimization.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (RDS, CloudWatch, ECS), Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team.

What Diligent Offers You:

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be done differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients.
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting-free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few.
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability - to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who want to help build the software company of the future, and who aim to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.